Ohio Disease Outbreak Linked to Chipotle Restaurant
About 180 people who ate at a Chipotle restaurant near Kent State University in Kent, Ohio, became sick with a gastrointestinal illness, the Akron Beacon Journal reports. Health officials began investigating the outbreak after people started arriving at local emergency rooms complaining of diarrhea, nausea, and severe vomiting.
Many of those affected were Kent State students who had eaten burritos at the restaurant on Thursday and Friday. Some had donated blood and gotten a coupon for free food at the restaurant, according to WLWT, the Cincinnati NBC affiliate.
The cause of the outbreak could be food-borne bacteria—like salmonella—or a norovirus spread by a sick restaurant employee, health officials said. The restaurant chain reopened on Saturday with employees from other store locations, because of concern that a sick employee might be the source of the outbreak. The restaurant also replaced its food supply and sanitized all equipment, according to the Akron newspaper.
Results from testing of food and stool samples are expected in about five days and should help pinpoint the cause of the outbreak, the newspaper reports. Those who think they might have gotten sick after eating at the restaurant should seek medical treatment and call the Kent Health Department at (330) 678-8109.
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Reader Comments
Meat Curtain... More like Meat Head!
WOW! This is a news site not a high school perverts blog.
If you want to talk like trailer trash go to a live chat blog or something because that is completely repulsive and uncalled for on this site.
Grow up a little!
With a mouth like that its no wonder you spend your days scanning news sites and getting kicks out of being an incompitent idiot! I wouldn't spend time with you either!
Go to school, get an eduaction and actually do something to better society, because currently your doing nothing more than being a waste of life!
I have a special name...
for the type of thing that happens when I eat there. Not very creative, but I call it "The Chipotle's" and the person from san diego is right. I eat it only if I know restrooms are available immediately...private restrooms that is...at home. That's why I stopped eating there.
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